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Author:   Jens Bjerring-Hansen ,  Anders Engberg-Pedersen ,  Lasse Horne Kjældgaard
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   210
Weight:   0.709kg
ISBN:  

9789004526037

ISBN 10:   900452603
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   20 December 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction “A Master of Productive Criticism”   Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Anders Engberg-Pedersen and Lasse Horne Kjældgaard Part 1 The Comparatist 1 The Fox and the Stork Georg Brandes and the Institutionalization of Comparative Literature   Ben Hutchinson 2 Georg Brandes and the History of Emotions   Anders Engberg-Pedersen 3 Sexual Morality, Gender Equality, and Pioneering Women Writers in Brandes’ Comparative Writings   Sophie Wennerscheid 4 Georg Brandes and the Writing of Typological Literary History   Lasse Horne Kjældgaard 5 “The Prose of Life” Brandes and the Concept of the Prosaic   Annegret Heitmann 6 “Bringing the Foreign Closer to Us” Cross-Cultural Literary Matchmaking in Georg Brandes’ Letters   Julie K. Allen Part 2 The Public Intellectual 7 The Pétroleuse and the Prophet Georg Brandes and the Making of an Intellectual   Torben Jelsbak 8 The Southern Prism of the Northern Breakthrough Georg Brandes and Italy   Stefan Nygård 9 Brandes – Ibsen Rethinking the Modern Breakthrough   Narve Fulsås 10 Between Deification and Rejection Georg Brandes as an Ambivalent Public Figure in the German-Speaking World   Monica Wenusch 11 The Domesticated European? Georg Brandes’ Impressions of Russia and his Russian Reception   Birgitte Beck Pristed 12 “The Universal Struggle for World Renown” Georg Brandes’ Global Literary Strategies   Jens Bjerring-Hansen 13 Georg Brandes’ Erasure of Jewishness and Cosmopolitanism in his Later Writings   Søren Blak Hjortshøj 14 “The Slaughter of the Youth of Europe” Georg Brandes and the Young Generation in The World at War   Martin Zerlang 15 Brandes after Nietzsche Aristocratic Radicalism vs. Human Rights   William Banks Index

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“Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity.” This is what our editors wrote in the introduction of the 200th jubilee volume Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (2019). The past volumes in this series provide a look into the history of Comparative Literary Studies of the last three decades. Having started with ‘classical’ literary studies, the series opened to contemporary approaches such as migration studies, memory studies, and human-animal studies. Thus, it is ready for its future. Norbert Bachleitner, Universität Wien, Austria - Juliane Werner, Universität Wien, Austria

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Jens Bjerring-Hansen, PhD, is Associate Professor of Scandinavian Literature at the University of Copenhagen. He has published widely on Danish and Scandinavian literary and cultural history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Most recent book publication is the volume Scandinavian Exceptionalisms (2021, with Torben Jelsbak and Anna Mrozewicz). Anders Engberg-Pedersen received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and in Neuere Deutsche Literatur from Humboldt Universität in 2012. He is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and Chair of Humanities at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies. His publications include Empire of Chance. The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things (HUP, 2015) and Martial Aesthetics. How War Became an Art Form (SUP, forthcoming 2023). Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, dr.phil. and PhD, is Professor of Danish Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and Director of the Hans Christian Andersen Centre. He has published numerous monographs and articles on Danish literary and cultural history.

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